If this goes live, I'm out. YT premium is my most expensive subscription, but I watch enough YouTube that I'm OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers. If I still get ads? Nah dawg. I'll divy up that money amongst patreons or whatever, and install add blockers.
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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If your main reason for paying premium is for ad blocking, I’d suggest just cancelling it now and using ad blockers. If you want to support creators, I’d say that it’s better to cancel and subscribe to a few patreons - I’d pick some of the smaller creators you like, to spread some of that support around a bit.
If you use iOS devices for watching YouTube, look into side-loading uYou+, it’s basically an edited YouTube app that removes most of the ads. You can stream from your phone to the apple TV, too, also without ads.
Not sure what the android equivalent is, but someone else will know - hopefully they will share in the comments also.
SmartTubeNext has been working fairly well for me for like 5 years or something. It's super easy to side load on a Fire stick.
Why don’t you just cancel it now and use ad blockers?
Joel explains this in the second sentence: "I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers"
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ReVanced is great on Android, it also enables other YouTube premium features such as picture-in-picure mode.
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I guess they are premium ads?
this but unironically
advertisers paid a premium
Ad companies have the new subscription tier of Premium Buster, so now you have to upgrade to Premium Buster Buster
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u/Dangerous-Pizza7054 from the article,
Seems like the user tracking "special promotion" overrides the premium. They don't even say whether it's expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)
We've GOT A PAYERR OVER HEREEEEE!!!!!!!
ublock is cheaper and actually works
So premium users put their data on a pedestal for Google? That's fun
That's generally; if you have an account, you are easier to track for them.
I got the same Sunday banner in the middle of the screen similar to where shorts show up. Never in my life have I watched or cared for American football. Clearly a waste of money for the advertising company since I just closed it by pressing the x same as shorts on desktop.
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What ads? (User without premium, but proper browser and adblocker)
Firebox mobile + unlock origin extension + YouTube.com.
You get everything that YouTube premium can offer. Including screen off play.
On mobile you can use ReVanced.
Don't you still have to patch it and repack it every update?
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whos gonna prosecute any of this shit now
Oh they will prosecute! They will prosecute people with adblocks and alternative clients.
This is why I stopped paying them. Fuck them, you're just an source of income to them.
I mean, yeah, what kind of relationship did you expect?
They're not running youtube for the good of their heart
Lol godamnit I just found out YouTube is a business, you're getting downvoted!
Side loading works great for this and it's free
Yeah I stopped paying for premium once I’d figured out using Safari on my phone with an ad blocker works with YouTube still lol
I use Firefox with ublock on my phone and I get no ads. Or I watch them in Newpipe.
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It is just YT testing new exciting features, nothing to worry about.
Grayjay on Android has been working damn near flawlessly for me. No clue if the parent company is to be trusted at this point or not- but I cannot argue with the results.
Were you able to import your subscriptions? I haven't been able to and that's all that's keeping me on Premium
Yeah, logging in pulled across everything, as far as I can tell. Subscriptions included!
I much prefer Newpipe, which has been amazing so far.
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This is normal, nothing to see here... except these wonderful ads!! - YouTube
A/b testing or code error?
With Alphabet, I treat anything related to delivering more ads as intentional.
Or sometimes it doesn't let me play YouTube in a minimized floating way. Seems to be if I've been going back and forth between horizontal and vertical vids. Both normally allow floating minimized play but something about how they interact often leads me to having to force close the app, which loses me the custom queue I've been constructing. If the official solution is buggy...